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Oh God
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I never noticed
How much absenceby FelineMuse 9 lines, 1 comment, on Nov 18 6:41 PM -
We speak in riddles
Metaphors to avoid truthby vampedvixen 17 lines, 2 comments, on Nov 21 12:43 AM. In love -
Embrace strange disiare to listen
a pretty lady to protect,by Araya jabari 14 lines, 3 comments, on Mar 31 3:00 PM -
He hadn’t thought of the word, alabaster,
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by KODAS Matt 23 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 24 10:40 AM
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Just because you feel a certain way towards someone
Doesn’t automatically mean they’ll reciprocate.
So don’t go telling dozens of people -
part 2 of my earlier poem "Encounters"by xenocide 5 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 24 12:41 AM
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Watching it rain
Hour within the hourby sidewinder 19 lines, 17 comments, on Nov 13 4:45 PM -
"Parchment layers of healthy skin, ever growing from within"by Rose Angel 24 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 12 9:40 PM. In Life, Thoughts, Contest, Contemporary, Message
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It hurts, you know, and sometimes, like today, I let my façade drop,
Showing you the inner me, the pained and true blue me. -
In the year of my agony when I died inside every day,
Some nice people drew alongside and offered me help. -
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It's just no use trying to force something out of myself. Sort of like when I sit here and stare at the screen, or at my notebook, and try to write something down to cryptically let others know how I'm feeling - because it'sby AboveApathy 8 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 27 11:40 PM
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This despair is not yours.
You don't have to wonder
Whether I win, whether I lose. -
Dark shadows of "I'm sorry",
brought to you with false motivesby Lowercase Prelude 16 lines, 27 comments, on Oct 21 3:59 PM. In Abstract -
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I sit here with my hood on,
headphones in ear, -
These stone walls that surround me
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she turned her head low
no where in heaven she was toldby chedderhead 38 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 14 1:06 PM -
I'm done living like every second should be a thriller;
haven't quite found god yet,by StabbyJack 60 lines, 10 comments, on Jun 12 1:19 AM -
I do not wish to be
Anything strange fruitfully. -
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Hussein and the Pushy-Cat sent for free Electoral College vote,
poured pork-barrel honey, and plenty of money guaranteed by a Lehmann not -
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purple crocus in abundance:
yet I crave denied elixir—
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Fighting in the trenches
For his country an his Queen -
We parted crushed
And bleeding so -
A torturing remnant memory lingers,
Across the glass of the photograph,by Scopene 19 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 6 3:06 AM -
The shadow of someone who isn't... not anymore
A soul-shaped-hole in my tightly woven universe -
Raised by the sea, he had a family of refugees, fear their drive
to escape a poverty stricken homeland. Nobody could give themby spideracer 69 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 27 8:14 PM. In War, Pain, Dark, Sad, Inspirational, Death, Cussing
